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For what it's worth, ebay.co.jp is actually not running on their main platform. You can see the difference in the HTML code between ebay.com, ebay.de (both on t

by hkolk 8y ago

For what it's worth, ebay.co.jp is actually not running on their main platform. You can see the difference in the HTML code between ebay.com, ebay.de (both on the main platform) and ebay.co.jp (wordpress based). I actually don't even know if they are showing eBay listings on that website... Good find though, and embarrassing failure. Especially since most eBay properties have penetration testing and automated scanners being run on them

codemusings 8y ago
Fun fact: just entering [ebay.co.jp] gives you a "Connection refused". You explicitly have to enter [www.ebay.co.jp]. I don't know what they're doing over there.
- giancarlostoro 8y ago
  I had the same issue, I wanted to see the site everyone was talking about, if you append www. or https://www https://www. in front of it, it works.
  - richrichardsson 8y ago
    for future reference, prepend is the word you wanted. "If you prepend www. or https://www https://www. it works."
    - giancarlostoro 8y ago
      Ah yes, hadn't had my coffee yet. Prefix is the word I usually use more commonly instead, not sure if there's a huge difference between the two.
      - cevn 8y ago
        I think prepend makes more sense as a verb. Prefix is more commonly used as a noun
- scruffyherder 8y ago
  Plenty of sites in asia expect the www. It's crazy annoying. Pizzahut recently fixed theirs after years of bitching about it.
ekianjo 8y ago
Ebay does not operate in Japan as an auction site. Instead we have Yahoo Auctions and more recently Mercari.
- hkolk 8y ago
  Interesting enough Yahoo Japan was/is always a distinct company from Yahoo itself. Japan is special from a silicon valley perspective I guess...
  - garmaine 8y ago
    Japan is special from just about every perspective.
  - toast0 8y ago
    Yahoo Japan had access to Yahoo US's source... auctions in Japan was based on the us auctions, but it continued to run after the us auctions shut down. (I don't know how it evolved after that)
- 4ndr3vv 8y ago
  Interesting! perhaps this is why there was no reward offered - there's no real customer data being threatened? Just the passwords/source to their wordpress site?
  - ekianjo 8y ago
    That's my guess, unless they do some other kind of entreprise business that I am not aware about.
C1sc0cat 8y ago
Very embarrassing not handling basic stuff like this is really NCI (Non Culpable Incompetence)

by hkolk 8y ago

codemusings 8y ago

Fun fact: just entering [ebay.co.jp] gives you a "Connection refused". You explicitly have to enter [www.ebay.co.jp]. I don't know what they're doing over there.

giancarlostoro 8y ago
I had the same issue, I wanted to see the site everyone was talking about, if you append www. or https://www https://www. in front of it, it works.
- richrichardsson 8y ago
  for future reference, prepend is the word you wanted. "If you prepend www. or https://www https://www. it works."
  - giancarlostoro 8y ago
    Ah yes, hadn't had my coffee yet. Prefix is the word I usually use more commonly instead, not sure if there's a huge difference between the two.
    - cevn 8y ago
      I think prepend makes more sense as a verb. Prefix is more commonly used as a noun
scruffyherder 8y ago
Plenty of sites in asia expect the www. It's crazy annoying. Pizzahut recently fixed theirs after years of bitching about it.

ekianjo 8y ago

Ebay does not operate in Japan as an auction site. Instead we have Yahoo Auctions and more recently Mercari.

hkolk 8y ago
Interesting enough Yahoo Japan was/is always a distinct company from Yahoo itself. Japan is special from a silicon valley perspective I guess...
- garmaine 8y ago
  Japan is special from just about every perspective.
- toast0 8y ago
  Yahoo Japan had access to Yahoo US's source... auctions in Japan was based on the us auctions, but it continued to run after the us auctions shut down. (I don't know how it evolved after that)
4ndr3vv 8y ago
Interesting! perhaps this is why there was no reward offered - there's no real customer data being threatened? Just the passwords/source to their wordpress site?
- ekianjo 8y ago
  That's my guess, unless they do some other kind of entreprise business that I am not aware about.

C1sc0cat 8y ago

Very embarrassing not handling basic stuff like this is really NCI (Non Culpable Incompetence)